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Audubon: The Early Drawings

Lecture & booksigning
by Scott Edwards & Leslie
Morris

Thursday, September 18,
2008, 6:00 pm

Scott Edwards, Professor
of Organismic and Evolutionary
Biology and Curator of Ornithology
in Harvard’s MCZ, and
Leslie Morris, Curator of Modern
Books and Manuscripts at Harvard’s
Houghton Library, will discuss
the origin and scientific significance
of John James Audubon’s
early drawings. Audubon’s
early work, drawn from specimens
he collected in France and
in America in the early 1800s,
is being published together
here for the first time in
large format and full color.
For this special occasion,
a selection of original Audubon
drawings will be on public
exhibit during the lecture,
courtesy of the Houghton Library
and the Ernst Mayr Library
at Harvard.

Geological
Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford.
Admission
is free and open to the public.